Hi, That is interesting. I remember my first classes in MLISc, when we were learning in 'Knowledge Organization'. Prof. B.V. Rajashekar (one of the excellent teachers I have been fortunate to study under) used to tell us that every child learns by classifying. For example, first a child would identifiy all four legged animals as 'dogs' (because she has come across a dog earlier). Then she will learn that not all are 'dogs' but there are 'cats' and 'goats' too, thus classifying them according to their features and tagging them differently. I witness this happening everyday with my two year old kid. If 'classification' and 'tagging' are so fundamental, then I suppose there is a librarian in everyone. But the problem is, we all have studied in differnt 'schools', haven't we? I wonder how effective folksonomy is. We could call it 'collective librarianship'? with regards, Suvarsha *********************************************************************** Suvarsha Walters, Project Assistant, National Centre for Science Information Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 560 012 INDIA Ph (Off): 080-23600271 / 22932511 Ph (Mobile): 98458 33694 E-mail: suvarsha_w@yahoo.com suvarsha@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in ************************************************************************ On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Sukhdev Singh wrote:
. A "folksonomy" is a collaboratively generated, open-ended labeling system that enables Internet users to categorize content such as Web
Well - a librarian is most concerned with selecting and organizing information. But that is exactly what everybody in doing on web in a phenomenon called Folksonomy < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folksonomy pages, online photographs, and Web links.
This is because everybody has a small "Librarian" embedded inside < http://sukhdev.blogspot.com/2006/04/everybody-has-librarian-inside.html
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Any comments please!!
--Sukhdev Singh, NIC. http://openmed.nic.in
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